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Tropaeolum tricolor

Botanic Family

Tropaeolaceae

Author

Sweet

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Chile
• Bolivia

Natural Habitats

• Montane shrubland

Flowering Times

• Spring Winter to early Summer Aug
• Sep
• Oct Jun-Oct (Chile)

Fruiting Times

Perennial trailer or climber with 30mm blue, red & yellow flowers, petals unguiculate, orange-scarlet calyx tipped black. Leaf stalk twiner, tuberous root, peltate leaves with 5-7 segments, cirrhose petioles, tuberous roots. Dormant in summer

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Bodkin
• The Plant List
• Botanicus